Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.

Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down.

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

The Bible isn't quick to give answers; it mainly gives the Answer.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

Being God would be the ultimate.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.